December 10, 2016 - Clara Murphy will present her students in Christmas Recital on Monday, December 12, 2016 at 7 pm at First Baptist Church, San Augustine, Texas.

Students to play are: Rebecca Bullock, Raven Jenkins, Charlisa Teagle, Jessie Williams, Chalee Gibbs, Bonnie Consford, Itzel Cabrerra,  Zoe McKinney, Sadie Miller, Zach Bennett, Kailey Sowell, Peyton Stephens, Justine Chavez, Bethany Dorsey, and Mason McGown.  Some students will play the organ, recorder and flute.

Please come and encourage these musicians.

October 31, 2016 - I recall that my mother, Alice, would complain about her nerves.  After a long day of work in her beauty shop she would often go to her medicine cabinet, pull out a blue bottle, and take a spoon full of liquid.  She said that it calmed her nerves.

September 5, 2016 - Medical experts tell us that there are two personality types of people – Type A and Type B.  Those who would be considered on the Type A side of the spectrum are those that are more driven, more focused, more goal-oriented, more diligent, more likely to get stressed and emotional, and more  likely to have heart attacks and/or mental breakdowns.

The other side of the spectrum includes everyone else, who are called Type B personalities. These people aren’t as driven or goal-oriented, are more laid back, and more careless.  

August 2, 2016 - I venture to say that not many people today have had the privilege of sleeping in a dwelling with a corrugated tin roof.  My grandparent’s home had a tin roof.

July 3, 2016 - I recently discovered an old photograph of my grandmother, Mary Murphy, on her front porch watching her grandson, Larry Woods, playing in a wash-tub filled with water. Both Mary and Larry are gone from us now, but the image of the porch stuck in my mind. I miss front porches on our homes.